Tow job
The tail-end of a night on the town. It’s 2 a.m. Love is in the air, the air that now occupies the space where you left your car hours before. Towed! Your ride has been dragged to an unfamiliar industrial zone somewhere on the north side. Your evening out, wrecked. You finally find…
Christopher Plummer’s controlled despair
Distinguished alumni continue to return to the Stratford Festival to make its 50th anniversary season stellar indeed. Alumnus Brent Carver, a Tony Award-winner for Kiss of the Spider Woman, returns to Stratford in the world premiere of Timothy Findley’s play, Shadows. Findley, an actor in the first 1953 company at Stratford, later became a…
Shaking up our expectations
Shohei Imamura’s Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, which screens this Friday at the Dryden Theatre, is, at least at its foundation, remarkably similar to his critically acclaimed film The Eel. Both movies deal with a middle-aged, white-collar office drone who leaves a big city life to take up with a bunch of rural kooks…
When art is more real than life
That flashy, fabulous, and complicated entity familiarly known as Hollywood occupies so large and so important an area of the American cultural landscape that it provides a readily recognizable source of satire — it’s easy to make fun of the absurdity and exaggeration of the film industry, and nobody ever misses the joke. In addition,…
Planet Rochester: How are things on the ground?
Johannesburg seems a world away, and the Earth Summit a world apart. Or so it seems to Americans, thanks to our head of state, who — unlike 100 of his peers — will not be attending. But the summit is actually the most local and immediate of events — for all localities worldwide, simultaneously.…
News briefs 9.4.02
The R.A.T.S. pack Are you between the ages of 20 and 29? Are you sick of sitting home, pulling bongloads, and playing Sega until your thumbs bleed? Tired of the bar scene? Wish you could meet and mingle with people your own age without flunkies from the Zone showing up and trying to give you…
Reader feedback 9.4.02
Whose rights? In “Taking the FIF” (August 14), Jack Bradigan Spula presents statistics that, like all statistics, leave unanswered questions. For example: “The NYCLU report shows that drug activity accounts for 55 percent of FIFs; no other ‘context’ accounts for more than 10 percent.” And [quoting SUNY Brockport professor Eileen O’Brien]: “‘Drug use data consistently…
